Posts by ichoran@qoto.org
 (DIR) Post #APTDLRv1swYva99TQu by ichoran@qoto.org
       2022-11-10T19:10:46Z
       
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       @marathon0 @freemo - If you’re trying to curate a safe space, you exactly don’t want the user to decide because in deciding they have to hit something (maybe many things) that makes them feel unsafe.The wisdom of increasing comfort rather than developing resilience is another matter, but it’s self-consistent.Also, the people I’ve talked to who are into this sort of thing mostly don’t, when pressed, have much of a problem with authoritarianism-used-for-good or oversight-used-for-good.  Benevolent dictators can be awesome, if you can guarantee benevolence.  There can be some nasty differences between theory and practice regarding resolving that conditional, however.
       
 (DIR) Post #AQ3BIuh9CPxAfPhz84 by ichoran@qoto.org
       2022-11-28T03:48:10Z
       
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       @freemo I'm happy to lend some eyes and thoughts, though I am too busy to be on ongoing participant.  But I can try for a focused brief effort, maybe aimed at a decent first draft.Hopefully this could be of use.  I have a good deal of experience with online spaces (being old enough to have been involved in many), and I have seen a variety of attempts at moderation and such in a variety of venues and seen problems of various sorts in action.  Furthermore, I'm reasonably well-versed in the contemporary problem of echo chambers, amplification of misinformation, and the propensity to anti-social content, am familiar with the standard philosophical arguments in favor of free speech (including necessary preconditions and assumptions), and have at least a superficial understanding of how human psychology differs in online vs in-person interactions.So although I'm not an expert in the area, for an amateur, I think I'm decently qualified to have some hope of making a worthwhile contribution despite a limited engagement.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARmEPGlffEa3yPvjgO by ichoran@qoto.org
       2023-01-18T19:17:02Z
       
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       @freemo Any phrase used as a tribal identity marker tends to attract stupidity because the point is allegiance not analysis; any topic of considerable depth discussed in 280 or less character chunks tends towards stupid because there isn't enough space to advance sufficiently nuanced ideas; and in this case the starting point is counterfactual, which poses serious challenges for non-idiotic support.So, yeah, if it was anything other than a maelstrom of stupidity, we ought to be mightily surprised.(I do note with displeasure that a lot of people more on the sane side of things tend to overestimate the degree to which one can conclude things like "vaccines are totally safe" from observations like "the anti-vax side is comprised of idiots".  That's not how it works!  Is there a talkorigins.org equivalent for Covid vaccines yet?)